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From Riots to Renaissance
Black Chicago is synonymous with jazz and the blues, but few know about the city’s courageous black pilots who changed aviation history. When flying was still a novelty, these men and women took to the skies and in the process helped open the door for blacks to train and fly as pilots in World War II….
Georgia Louise Henderson
While it took Georgia Louise Henderson a while to land on aviation, she always knew that she wanted to work with her hands. As a young girl, the Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (AME) apprentice and private pilot student from Scone, a town in the Upper Hunter Shire in the Hunter region of New South Wales (NSW),…
Lauren Williams
Lauren Willliams knew she wanted to fly after going to an air show with her parents at the age of four. She described being mesmerized by a F/A-18 at a military air show during Fleet Week in San Francisco. “I was blown away,” Williams said. “I knew then that’s what really sparked my interest.” Now,……
Hunter Maxwell
Twenty-five year old Hunter Maxwell is a private pilot, and currently training to be a reserve pilot with the US Air Force. Given that Maxwell’s grandfather, father, and aunt all worked in aviation, you might assume he has long wanted to follow in their footsteps. However, it wasn’t until college that he decided on becoming……
Patty Wagstaff
Patty Wagstaff is a competition aerobatic pilot, U.S. National Aerobatic Champion, and 6-time consecutive “First Lady of Aerobatics”. Today, she owns and operates an aerobatic and upset recovery training (UPRT) flight school in St. Augustine, Florida. Wagstaff grew up in Japan, the daughter of a Japan Air Lines pilot, and didn’t consider a flying career……
Cosby Washington
Cosby Washingtion’s life-long dream to become a pilot started in the third-grade with a science fair project on paper airplanes that advanced to the city wide science fair. At thirty-two years old Washington recalls the fateful city wide science fair event that set in motion his career in the aviation industry. “At the city wide……